Friday, May 8th, 2009

Bootleg City: Air Supply in Cleveland, October ‘82

by Robert Cass

A reader named R. Murdoch* sent me the following bootleg by “my best mates,” Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock, the Australian duo otherwise known as Air Supply, performing in Cleveland, Ohio, on October 22, 1982. I can’t verify that Mr. Murdoch really is friends with “Graham Russell Terrier,” as he collectively calls them, but I do hope for his sake that he’s not just some random fan hoping to make a name for himself by claiming he knows rich, famous people. That would be tacky.

I Can’t Get Excited
Lost in Love
Every Woman in the World
Even the Nights Are Better
Now and Forever
One Step Closer
Late Again
[Graham mistakenly addresses the audience as "Cincinnati" and asks where he can score some H after the show.]
Young Love
Here I Am (Just When I Thought I Was Over You)
Sweet Dreams
All Out of Love
She Never Heard Me Call
[Graham goes bananas, hurling a bottle of Jack at a single mother in the third row after she requests "Who Can It Be Now?"]
I’ve Got Your Love
The One That You Love
[Russell insults the band for blowing "the easiest bloody cue in the entire bloody show" and storms off the stage.]
This Heart Belongs to Me

* Turns out it was Popdose’s old pal Joe Mallon, from whose voluminous archives many of our bootlegs have sprung. Thanks, Joe — for the bootleg and the deceit!

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  • Matt
    I've got this on my hard drive, but I think all of the good in between song chatter linked above, has been edited out.

    Seriously though, hilarious.
  • EightE1
    Cass, this might be the coolest thing you've done under the Bootleg City banner. And I say that in spite of knowing that Jason will be the happiest among us.

    Rob
    EightE1
  • This?!
  • A lesson in inflation and deflation - It's Bootleg Time. INFLATION. It's Air Supply. DEFLATION.
  • forwardgirl
    Oh! I was soooo happy to go see Air Supply in 1982. I was ten.
    And, nostalgic fool that I am, I went to see them do a casino show just last year, and the words 'icky' and 'creepy' were redefined. They still got pipes, though.
  • Their pipes seemed to be giving out on their infamous Time-Life Classic Soft Rock Collection infomercial, but Jason Hare swears they still had it as of 2007, and so do you. That's good enough for me.
  • I saw 'em in 2004, and their voices were shot, out of tune, etc. Not that I could have done any better...but I was bummed, because I was a big fan.
  • I have a soft spot for Air Supply: either All Out of Love or Lost in Love was the first song that I got utterly sick of hearing on the radio. Or maybe it was both: it was years before I figured out that they weren't the same song.

    At any rate, thanks for reminding me of a simpler time, when Middle School was still called Jr. High, and the first time I got pissed that the less-qualified candidate had become president.
  • "... it was years before I figured out that they weren't the same song."

    I feel the same way. I love soft rock, but there isn't a single Air Supply song I like. I guess I'd pick "Every Woman in the World" if I had to pick one, but that's not saying much. It's appropriate that the first song in the 10/22/82 set is "I Can't Get Excited." They're trying to tell you something, audience!
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